Example sentences of "we have to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We realized that , lyrically , we had to be more specific this time in terms of our politics . |
| 32 | Lionel had mentioned her only once : ‘ Florence , Flora rather — we had to be careful not to ask of her more than she could give — ’ and had left Lily to puzzle out the meaning . |
| 33 | We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed . |
| 34 | Before we left for dinner we had to be rubbed down [ a body search ] , have our pockets checked , etc . |
| 35 | With the fighting so close , we had to be right on the border between Amal and Hezbollah territory . |
| 36 | There was also a new guard working with Abu Salim , from whom the man got the impression that we had to be treated heavily . |
| 37 | It er We had to be it was a closed shop , that was , and er I er I was the er I was the secretary for er for our Chairman rather for ou our er local local branch , for the Nottingham area branch of er USDOR you see ? |
| 38 | At the start of the recession , we had to be prepared to have regard to its length , its depth , its breadth and to adapt policies and to be flexible . |
| 39 | Whatever we may have felt , however , we had to be careful not to show too much dislike , because the Repubblichini were gaining strength all the time . |
| 40 | We had to be particularly polite to him because of the enormous interests of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company ( now BP ) in the country … |
| 41 | ‘ Tremors of this magnitude , although rare , have been recorded in the region and we had to be comfortable that the plant could withstand the worst-case scenario . |
| 42 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 43 | It was Monday when we left and we had to be out of Debenham by quarter to seven in the morning . |
| 44 | In which we had to be very responsible like wearing a life jacket and plimsolls so we did n't slip on the floor . |
| 45 | In the mid eighties we decided that if we were going to be one of the super unions , we had to be amalgamation-friendly . |
| 46 | You see if There is going to be a war , and God 's people had also to be warriors and so there was that element of religion as well that that we had to be trained as warriors for the Lord . |
| 47 | It had to be passionate — and we had to be naked . |
| 48 | A good indication of what was passing through his mind in the aftermath of Barricades Week is provided by a letter that he wrote to his son in mid-February : " we had to be done with the impertinent pressure of the European population in Algiers , with the hard core of politicians which was forming in the army , and finally with the myth of " French Algeria " which merely disguises the desire of the " pieds noirs " to maintain their domination over the Muslims … |
| 49 | We had to be accompanied by bigger boys |
| 50 | We had to be because we had lost our real families |
| 51 | Andrew said : ‘ Everybody had to go through a medical before the show and if they were not up to it , they did not go in — we had to be very careful because of their health and safety . ’ |
| 52 | We had to be satisfied with results . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 54 | ‘ We had to be specific about the exercise question because people have different ideas about what exercise is . |
| 55 | If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary . |
| 56 | One resident , John Morell , 30 , said : ‘ We were told by the council that we had to be out within 48 hours . |
| 57 | Well , to keep it tidy , you see the , the creases used to come out so quickly , and we had to be , well on parade you were , you were looked at and you had to be very tidy and proper and er if you did n't do it you were told to do it and that was that . |
| 58 | No we had to be fair , was the saying , for the leaders . |
| 59 | and er , and we had to be so we got Ian 's one did when we pedal up and down |
| 60 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |